As we swing into the beginning of the 2011-2012 season and groups are starting to feel the benefits of the cash flush portion of the fiscal year, that typically means it is time to begin filling administrative openings. And before you go off spending your limited HR funds on buying job ads, make sure you’ve posted your openings at Adaptistration Jobs, the only completely free service for performing arts orgs to list administrative openings and for job seekers to browse and apply.
Editorial Cartoon: Age Of Executives
Not every generation gets to live during a period of major transition but everyone in the business today is lucky enough to witness what I like to call the dawn of the executives. For reasons I don’t remember (likely due to the gin being consumed during the conversation), a colleague and I were talking about the how the business has evolved over the past few decades.
Brains…Process…Brains…
There’s a terrific post over at Butts In The Seats from 9/6/2011 that’s worth your while to read titled Brains, Rather Than Butts, In The Seats. The gist of the article focuses on the notion that arts marketing needs to shift away from a strategic mindset as defined by subscriptions. Now before you think this is another log on the subscriptions good/subscriptions bad fire, guess again.
Join The Dark Side
At nearly three quarters of a million views and more than 700 comments, you’ve probably seen the article from the 9/5/2011 edition of cracked.com by Lillian Marx titled 5 Bizarre Dark Sides to Modern Orchestras. Keep in mind cracked.com is a comedy site so don’t go into this thinking it’s an epilogue to a Foundation study.
My TEDx Talk Video Is Now Available
I’m pleased to report that the video from my TEDx: Technology and Transformation in the Arts talk from May, 2011 is now available at the TEDx YouTube Channel. All in all, I’m grateful that the video and audio came out quite well.